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Manage applications

Manage composite applications by using a variety of features in application template libraries, applications catalogs, and portal administration pages.

Manage applications involves categorizing them for display in application catalogs; assigning user permission to work with them; maintaining roles for application members; and saving particular applications as templates for reuse. You can also use policies to monitor and manage application lifecycle.

Manage composite applications created from application templates requires an understanding of these basic principles:


Cataloging by category

Each composite application that is created from a template belongs to the category defined by its source template. The application category helps to describe the application and can be used to filter the display of the applications catalog. Set the default category filter for the applications catalog by clicking Edit Shared Settings in the catalog portlet menu. Application users with the appropriate permission can change the application category when they edit the properties of a particular application. Application users with the appropriate permission can create a new application category when they edit the properties of the application template. New categories are available for selection in the Category list of the application Properties portlet.


Manage access

Users with resource permission to create and edit application templates can save the applications that they own as new application templates as well as creating new templates from existing templates. When users create applications, they become application owners and, as such, are automatically assigned a portal access role type that provides manager access to the application. Application managers can typically perform the following actions to manage user access to applications:


Manage membership

Application managers can define application membership roles that permit application editing and membership management (Manage Application Roles). Then they can assign other users to those application membership roles (Assign Application Members). Application members who have permission to edit the application can select the actions that are available on the application page menu.

Application managers and users who have permission to manage the membership of the application can add and remove members and reassign roles. Application managers can choose to enable e-mail notifications to new members. Membership managers can also choose to make the application public by permitting all authenticated users to use the application in a non-manager role. If the application manager chooses not to make the application public, the application remains restricted to members. Only an application owner can make someone else the owner of the application.


Saving applications as templates

Users with resource permission to create and edit application templates can save the applications that they own as new application templates within the currently specified category. This option is useful for preserving the definition of an application for reuse. Saving a application as a template provides a quick alternative to creating a new application template from a blank template.

From the menu of an application page, click Save Application as Template to create a new template from the application you have open. When you save the application as a template, you specify a name for the application template, a category, and, optionally, a description. This new template will be listed in the Application Template Library and will be available for selection when users with the appropriate permission create new applications.


Manage applications with policies

Application managers can use policies for composite applications to monitor application size, modification frequency, and activity of all applications running on the server. The default policy settings of the main policy for composite applications can be edited. Child policies can be created to refine the main policy for subsets of applications. Policy rules for composite applications can express conditional statements for the application template, application category, and the policy selector attribute. After policies are assigned to applications and application monitoring begins, managers receive alerts and violation notices when applications approach or exceed the limits set by the policy for application size, modification frequency, and activity. Given the application status that is reported by the policies in force for each application, managers can determine when to backup, archive, restore, or delete particular applications. Applications are locked during backup, archive, and restore, but they can be unlocked if troubleshooting is required.


Parent topic:

Work with applications


Related concepts


Application access
Application membership